Get The Best Tips And Achieve Overall Balance In Your Diet By : Greg AdamsMany people sometimes go overboard in their diet. It's either they eat more than their body needs or they eat less than what is required. Thus people either get too fat or acquire anorexia nervosa. Healthy weight loss is actually easy if you know all the facts. The basic principle is to burn more than you consume. If you eat a lot then you should exercise a lot. That is balance. Another principle of balance is balanced diet. Eat more of healthy foods and eat less of unhealthy foods. Balance is the key to burning excess fat and dropping your weight to a healthy level.

Scientifically Proven Facts To Burn Fat Easily By : Greg AdamsNowadays many people don't have a healthy lifestyle. There is a way to quit the bad habits and turn to the brighter side even without compromising your daily routines! A simple and easy to follow checklist will help you achieve weight lost fast, without even putting too much effort!

Reduce Your Weight By Transforming Your Eating Practices By : Greg AdamsWe need to practice good eating habits in order to achieve our ideal weight. There is a popular fallacy going around that if you want to be slim, then you should not eat. This is a myth because eating is supposed to make us healthy, right? We become susceptible to anorexia nervosa, the neurosis of starving your way to be slim. But do you know that you can eat more and weigh less?

Great Places to Ride Your Bike in Colorado By : Pat J WalkerWhat would Colorado be without one gorgeous mountain after another? Naturally mountainous areas are a bikers paradise, so where better to test the limits of adventure then right here? Colorado has much to offer the experienced biker, but there are plenty of trails for the novice as well. Here are some of the best.

Popular Bike Trails In Arizona By : PJ WalkerThe terrain in Arizona varies from rocky climbs to smooth, flat desert stretches. These straight trails are a great place to work on your speed. Biking is popular in Arizona thanks to the great trails and the scenic beauty to be enjoyed.

The New Weight Loss Miracle Is Berries By : Keith YellenIf you looked at the polls that people take every new years eve, the most popular resolution people say they want to do is lose more weight. Everyone wants to shed a few pounds to fit into that bathing suit they haven't been in for years.

Belly Dancing Techniques Differ From Western Dance Techniques By : Veena KimshireMany people in the west are surprised to see that the body type exemplified in belly dancing is much different than the phenotype commonly seen in western dance. Instead of the skinny, flat stomached dancers of the west, the traditional belly dancers have more natural and rounded forms. The belly dancing techniques emphasize these natural womanly curves. Belly dancing commonly involves circular motions centering around the dancer's hips and radiating outward in all directions.

Why Join A Health Club In Ontario? By : Ben PateWhy should you join a health club? Well the obvious reason is to exercise, and stay in shape. Looking for a Personal Trainer in will have you scanning the internet, and yellow pages. However, you should always compare several different health clubs in order to get the proper fit for your needs.

How to Choose The Right Exercise? By : Mario BeckarYou need to consider the things that you hate and the things you like regarding the exercise type. You also need to know whether you hate or like paying for membership and buy equipment for the exercise.

El Cajon Fitness Boot Camp To Shape Your Physique By : Ben PatePerhaps the idea of an El Cajon boot camp is a completely foreign idea to you today, but after reading this article, you'll no longer be unaware of this fantastic concept. El Cajon Boot Camp Programs is are a fun and energizing way to exercise, offering varied work out routines and the supervision of skilled professional instructors who are there to advise you on the safest way to exercise with optimum results. Add to that the benefits of sound nutritional advice and you may find that boot camp is a life changing experience.

Carlsbad Boot Camp Classes - Focused On Feminine Need By : Johnny SimmonaThe Carlsbad exercise boot camp targets women participants who want to lose weight, gain strength and agility, reduce their body fat and fit into their prom night dresses a decade ago. It is a well known fact that women are prone to gaining weight faster than men and find it much more difficult to rid themselves of accumulated fat tissue. Most fitness training boot camps have excellent work out programs that are quite effective but not gender specific. They are not toned down to the levels of intensity that women would be comfortable with.

Great Places to Ride Your Bike in Alaska By : Pat J WalkerSplendid vistas, beautiful lakes, challenging trails. If you're into mountain biking, Alaska might be the ultimate destination, but it's not for the faint of heart! There's wildlife to contend with, differences in altitude and climate, and natural challenges like you wouldn't believe. Here's a quick sampler of some trails we can recommend.

Using A Heart Rate Monitor By : Henry CalhounWhen purchasing a heart rate monitor you must be knowledgeable of the workout level your heart can sustain. You cannot go purchase a heart rate monitor and just start using it for workouts.

Hi Cindy Whitmarsh,
I'm so excited - I just lost a lot of weight but now I have unsightly stomach flab. I want to know how to get rid of it...also I need something that mainly focuses on the abdominal region. My abs just hangs over my jeans giving me a muffin-top. I'd like to know how to get rid of that!
Thanks!

Dear Muffin-Top,

First of all great job on your recent weight loss! That's quite an achievement! Now let's get right down to the nity gritty details. If the extra around your waist is fat, also loving called a muffin-top, we can zap that with proper nutrition and exercise! If it is extra skin from excess weight drop then that is a problem we may not be able to get rid of without surgery. Let's not worry about we cannot fix and focus on the extra fat!

To begin with, we must start with modifying the diet! If you've already lost a lot of weight, you know what sort of diet works well for you. But in case you're still lost, here it goes; Nothing fancy, just remember to break down your meals from 3 large ones into 5 small helpings a day! You must absolutely avoid all processed food, red meat, sodas, and butter or cream sauces! Focus on lean protein, complex carbs and good fats like almonds. Drink 90 ounces of water a day! Additionally, you should ideally avoid all alcoholic beverages however, if you find that too hard to resist, you should limit yourself to just one or two drinks per week. Many a good diet has been ruined by those alcohol calories!

And let's not forget the exercise. You must do at least 30 minutes of cardio 5 to 6 days a week if you really want to lose the extra flab. Do multiple ab exercises daily. Reverse crunces, stability ball exercises, bicycles etc. Try my incredible ab workout or my 6 pack ab workout on exercisetv.tv! You can do it! Good luck!

Cindy Whitmarsh

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What You Can Learn From TV's Biggest Loser By : Jillian MichaelsIf you've seen her transform contestants' bodies on the Biggest Loser, you know celebrity trainer Jillian Michaels means business. With her straightforward, motivating style, she makes over physiques and in turn, changes lives. Read Michaels fool-proof ways to build your physique and slim down while boosting your energy. Take those tips to heart and you'll lose the fat,gain the muscule and end up a big winner!

Fat No More
First things first, you've got to boost your heart rate and incinerate calories. Once you start exercising, you'll metabolize the glucose in your muscles, but then, after about 20 to 30 minutes you'll start reaching into your fat reserves. Michaels favors circuit training, because it's a great way to work every muscle in your body while keeping your heart rate raised. In her "Banish Fat, Boost Metabolism" workout, which is part of the two-DVD, Ultimate Body Makeover Series on Exercise TV, Michaels guides viewers through seven six-minute high-intensity circuits. There's no rest in between circuits, and you're constantly moving, Michaels says. Each circuit features new exercises to work different muscles, and your heart rate is up the whole time.

"You won't get bored or even have much time to think. I try to pick people up in a tornado of energy so they don't have a second to think or doubt themselves. Before you know it, the workout is over, and you feel good," Michaels says.

At the very least you should be doing this routine twice a week. To get the most benefit, you really need to be doing this workout 4-5 times each week. In general, you should get at least four to five hours of exercise a week, with two days of rest slotted in between," Michaels says.

Using Your Own Weight

"Target toning doesn't work on it's own; you have to shed body fat," Michaels says. "You also have to condition the underlying muscles, so that when the fat comes off, you can see them."

In Michaels' No More Trouble Zones DVD workout, she makes sure to target and strengthen the typical tough spots, like triceps and thighs, while also incorporating cardio work to blast calories and fat. Try Jillian's Top to Bottom.

Like many of Michaels' workouts, No More Trouble Zones features body-weight exercise circuits, to hit every muscle group while pushing the limits. "In general I like exercises where you use your own body weight. You can do these exercises anywhere, at any time of day, and it's a great way to keep your body lean and functional," Michaels says. "Incorporate things like lunges, squats and push-ups into any workout." Michaels loves Burpees, as they rev your heart rate, delivering a total body cardio boost. To test your lower body limits, try Jillian's Lean and Mean Leg Workout (link to Lean and Mean Leg mini workout).

Stop Eating Crap
"You must watch what you're eating, because if not, you're just canceling out your workouts," Michaels says. If you can eat properly, count your calories, you can see effects in just 2 weeks!

If you're not following with one of Michaels' videos, she suggests creating an energizing playlist, to boost your mood. "It's about creating an environment of energy for yourself," Michaels says.

Michaels also suggests envisioning exactly what you plan to look like when you reach your fitness goals. "Keep a picture in mind of what you're working out for," Michaels says. "Sometimes working out isn't pleasurable, so think about the rewards. See yourself in that dress, with your hair how you want it with all the details."

Keep following her advice and in no time you'll get the shape you want.

What's Better: Strengthening Your Abdominal Core or Crunches? By : Fiona AppleCore training is a hot topic in fitness these days. Seems like everything abs these days is being inaccurately labeled core which is creating a great deal of confusion. What's the difference between core training (properly defined as functional core performance) and the standard abdominal crunch, and why should you care? You should care because the end result, how your body looks and performs, is significantly profound.

Let us start with explaning both these types of exercises. Did you know "crunch" is a colloquial word and not a real scentific term found in any exercise science college textbooks such as Exercise Physiology by McArdle, Katch, and Katch? It was in fact coined back in the early days of bodybuilding. Typically a crunch or sit-up is performed lying face up on the ground with bent knees, then lifting the upper torso and knees together. Most physical instructors define a crunch as a simultaneous flexion of the spine, mainly lumbar, and hips. Crunches primarily train your two, superficial abdominal muscles, the rectus or "six pack" and obliques. The goal of crunches is to build hypertrophy and definition, which is purely cosmetic according to Dr. Jerrold Petrofsky, Dept. Chair of Physical Therapy at Loma Linda University in California and Steve Thomas, MS, RPT of Steve Thomas PT in Brentwood, California. They state that training just these two ab muscles without properly strengthening and conditioning your full core produces muscle and structural imbalance in your entire trunk and body. The resulting back pain is preventable but is still very painful.

The main purpose of functional core training is to strengthen the stabilizer muscles in your entire trunk or core. Your core is defined as the entire region between your shoulders and your hips. Your core is an amazing anatomical composition of about 12 muscles that wrap around your midsection like a girdle. A few of these important muscles are the transverse abdominus, erector spinae, obliques, pelvic floor (PC), illiopsoas, and multifudus to name a few. All body movement stems from your core. The objective of functional core training is to establish a proper of sequence of muscle firing rhythms that will develop correct, strong upright posture and alignment, a strong back, good balance, gait, and, finally, movement by your legs and arms. In other words your core is essential for every movement in life. A balanced, strong body requires a well-aligned, balanced, strong core. From a purely cosmetic standpoint, when properly trained the core acts like a corset; holding and pulling in your entire abdominal region tight and flat- particularly that hard-to-train lower belly pooch sag problem area.

Core moves can be done in many different ways. The best core moves are performed in an athletic stance position and sometimes use fitness products like a stability ball or bosu to create instability forcing your trunk to instinctively use all your stabilizer, core muscles. Before you begin, the key to a proper core move that completely engages all your core muscles must begin with a proper set up. All you need to do is maintain good or neutral spine alignment before and throughout each and every move. Good alignment is achieved by keeping your ears stacked directly over your shoulders and hips, pulling and keeping your shoulders down, pulling your belly in tight, and doing a continuous, soft Kegel (also called pelvic floor pull-up) exercises. You can find and activate your pelvic floor muscles by stopping your urine mid-stream. Then, you can do a easy Kegel by pulling your pelvic floor muscles up and into your pelvic cavity.

Most body builders do an endless amount of crunches or sit-ups to achieve flat, sculpted six packs abs. However, because sit-ups only train the two, superficial ab muscles, the biomechanics are all wrong. Crunches or sit-ups will not train the important core muscles that truly act as an abdominal girdle by pulling your mid-section in making it look really flat. Thousands of repetitive, boring crunches won't help you get the flat, sculpted abs of your dreams. Only well executed, functional core performance moves will create washboard abs, along with developing a muscular, healthy back.